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Skoenmakers River Rehabilitation: FBAR: Final BAR Rehabilitation
Final Basic Assessment Report (FBAR): the remediation and rehabilitation of the river channel along the Skoenmakers River, Eastern Cape River
472748
Ms Manda Hinsch
Stakeholder@srk.co.za
hinm@srk.co.za
012 361 9821
The Skoenmakers River (located in the semi-arid Karoo region of the Eastern Cape) is being used as a transfer route for water transferred by the Orange-Fish-Sundays River Interbasin Transfer Scheme. The river receives water from the Gariep dam via a gravity tunnel and discharges into the Darlington dam.
Development of the Orange-Fish-Sundays River Interbasin Transfer Scheme in the 1970s to early 1980s made access for farmers to their lands hazardous. To overcome inaccessibility to Middlewater and farmlands, 10 River crossings were constructed. The continual change in the hydrological regime of this once ephemeral stream to a much bigger perennial river led to dramatic changes to both the physical structure and riparian vegetation structure of the river system. This has resulted in: